MISSILE, SPACE AND RANGE PIONEERS, INC.
PATRICK SFB, FLORIDA

Mr. Haise was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on November 14, 1933. He graduated with honors in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1959. He completed postgraduate courses in the USAF Aerospace Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1964 and the Harvard Business School PMD Program in 1972. Mr. Haise completed US Navy flight training in 1954 and served as a US Marine Corps Fighter Pilot in VMF-533 and VMF-114. He had further assignments as a Tactics and All-Weather Flight Instructor at NAS Kingsville, Texas. While flying with the Ohio Air National Guard, Mr. Haise was recalled into the USAF in 1961 with the 164th TAC Fighter Squadron. He has logged 9100 hours of flying time in over 80 types. A 20-year NASA career was begun as an Aeronautical Research Pilot at Lewis Research Center in 1959. Further assignments were held as a Research Pilot at the NASA Flight Research Center in 1963 and as an Astronaut at Johnson Space Center in 1966. Mr. Haise served as backup crew for the Apollo 8, 11, and 16 Missions. He flew as the Lunar Module Pilot on the aborted Apollo 13 Mission in 1970 that was dramatized in the Hollywood movie titled “Apollo 13”. He also flew five flights as the Commander of the Space Shuttle Enterprise in 1977 for the Approach and Landing Test Program at Edwards Air Force Base. After graduation from the Naval Academy, Cabana attended the Basic School in Quantico, Virginia, and completed naval flight officer training in Pensacola, Florida, in 1972. He served as an A-6 bombardier/navigator with Marine Air Wings in Cherry Point, North Carolina and Iwakuni, Japan. He returned to Pensacola in 1975 for pilot training and was designated a naval aviator in September 1976. He was then assigned to the Second Marine Aircraft Wing in Cherry Point, North Carolina, where he flew A-6 Intruders. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in 1981 and served at the Naval Air Test Center in Patuxent River, Maryland, as the A-6 Program Manager, X-29 Advanced Technology Demonstrator Project Officer and as a test pilot for flight systems and ordnance separation testing on A-6 and A-4 series aircraft. Prior to his selection as an astronaut candidate, he served as the Assistant Operations Officer of Marine Aircraft Group Twelve in Iwakuni, Japan. Cabana retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in August 2000. qualifying for assignment as a pilot on future space shuttle flight crews. His initial assignment was as the Astronaut Office Space Shuttle Flight Software Coordinator until November 1986. At that time, he was assigned as the Deputy Chief of Aircraft Operations for the Johnson Space Center, where he served for two and a half years. He then served as the lead astronaut in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL), where the orbiter’s flight software was tested prior to flight. Cabana has served as a Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) in Mission Control during space shuttle missions and as Chief of Astronaut Appearances. Prior to his assignment to command STS-88, Cabana served for three years as the Chief of NASA’s Astronaut Office. Following STS-88, Cabana served as the Deputy Director of Flight Crew Operations. After joining the International Space Station Program in October 1999, Cabana served as Manager for International Operations. From August 2001 to September 2002, he served as Director, Human Space Flight Programs, Russia. As NASA’s lead representative to the Russian Aviation and Space Agency (Rosaviakosmos) and its contractors, he provided oversight of all human space flight operations, logistics and technical functions, including NASA’s mission operations in Korolev and crew training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City. Upon his return to Houston, Cabana was assigned briefly as the Deputy Manager of the International Space Station Program. From November 2002 to March 2004, he served as Director of the Flight Crew Operations Directorate and was responsible for directing the day-to-day activities of the directorate, including the Astronaut Corps and aircraft operations at Ellington Field. He was then assigned as Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center, where he served for three and a half years. He next served as the Director of the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. A veteran of four space flights, Cabana has logged more than 910 hours in space. He served as pilot on STS-41 (October 6 to October 10, 1990) and STS-53 (December 2 to December 9, 1992) and was mission commander on STS-65 (July 8 to July 23, 1994) and STS-88 (December 4 to December 15, 1998), the first International Space Station assembly mission. Cabana currently serves as the Director of Kennedy Space Center, Florida. 1) Networking opportunities 2) Seeing what opportunities and challenges are in industry 3) Giving back and helping up and coming engineers 4) Social opportunities with like-minded people 5) Opportunity to meet and hear from Industry Leaders first hand